Reflections on the uses of consciousness, evolution, productivity and useless gifts.

Inspired and informed by 
"Other Minds: the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life". 
Peter Godfrey-Smith
"Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe:. What we know and what we do not know"  Arieh Ben- Naim
"Pemulwuy: the rainbow warrior"
Eric Wilmott